geothermal heat News
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New category of geothermal heat pumps can now earn the Energy Star
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing new requirements for residential geothermal heat pumps (GHPs), enabling water-to-water geothermal heat pumps to earn the Energy Star label for the first time. EPA’s stringent specifications for this new category of geothermal heat pumps will help protect the environment and reduce energy costs, because GHPs that meet the new standards will be ...
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Media Mentions: MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review recently published an excellent article about the Newberry EGS Demonstration. Author Kevin Bullis interviewed both Susan Petty, President of AltaRock Energy, Inc., David Stowe, Public Relations representative for AltaRock as well as Jeff Tester, Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at Cornell University. The article does an excellent job summarizing the Newberry EGS ...
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Geothermal Heat Pump Installations Represent 1% of Heating and Cooling Market
Global Information, Inc. presents a new market research report, "Geothermal Heat Pumps and Direct Use" by Pike Research. Direct use of geothermal, primarily heat pumps, is on the rise as demand for electricity expands worldwide and energy prices increase. Geothermal heat pumps provide an efficient and reliable option for residential commercial and institutional building owners by exploiting ...
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Canada Greener Homes Grant
Saving energy saves you money – Get up to $5000 in grants for geothermal heat pump ...
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GEO Announces Cooperative Engagement Initiative
The Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO), a national non-profit trade association promoting the manufacture, design and installation of geothermal heating and cooling systems, announces a new effort to increase its involvement with rural electric cooperatives (RECs) to promote and support the installation of geothermal heat pumps. “Geothermal is the most energy efficient and ...
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End-of-Year Budget and Covid Relief Package Includes Tax Benefits for Geothermal Heat Pumps
After eight months of start-and-stop negotiations, Congress has successfully brokered a massive end-of-year budget and pandemic relief deal which includes major economic stimulus components including an extension of federal tax credits for geothermal heat pump (GHP) installations. The legislation moves on to the White House for President Trump’s signature. As part of the deal, the Energy ...
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Massachusetts Homeowners Earn Cash Back with Geothermal
Massachusetts Homeowners Can Earn Alternative Energy Credits with a Geothermal System Massachusetts has a little-known program that offers cash back to homeowners who install geothermal heating systems. All geothermal systems installed in Massachusetts are eligible to earn Alternative Energy Credits (AECs) through the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER). If the heating ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Higher energy efficiency of geothermal heating and cooling attracts non-residential segments
Heating and cooling accounts for 40 percent to 50 percent of power consumption in non-residential buildings. This highlights the urgent need to increase the overall energy efficiency in these buildings – geothermal heating and cooling technologies may hold the key. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's (http://www.buildingtechnologies.frost.com) Analysis of the North American Geothermal ...
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Join Dandelion for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to Celebrate the Opening of our New Long Island Warehouse
Please join Dandelion Energy on April 26 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating our early 2022 kick-off announcement that we are now serving all of Long Island with geothermal heating and cooling solutions. The event will include a tour of our facility and one of the rigs that our Long Island drilling partner, Island Geo, is using for our customer’s installations. Long Island homeowners ...
By Dandelion
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Strawbale Home in Rush, NY
Ikan Design Consultants in collaboration with Brasley Architecture are delivering full service design for the sustainable strawbale specification home to be built in Rush, NY. Sustainable features include strawbale envelope, geothermal heating and cooling system, in floor radiant heating and cooling, energy recovery ventilator, on demand hot water systems, and PV solar panels. Project goal is to ...
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Strawbale Home in Rush, NY.
Ikan Design Consultants in collaboration with Brasley Architecture are delivering full service design for the sustainable strawbale specification home to be built in Rush, NY. Sustainable features include strawbale envelope, geothermal heating and cooling system, in floor radiant heating and cooling, energy recovery ventilator, on demand hot water systems, and PV solar panels. Project goal is to ...
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Webinar. Promoting transparency on energy costs: heating & cooling solutions
Industry players from the Renewable Heating and Cooling sector (bioenergy, geothermal, solar thermal, air-source/water based/geothermal heat pumps) are invited to participate in an online workshop with the following topics: Levelised costs of heating and cooling: a new common approach Acquiring a heating and cooling system: Key decision factors in five European countries Comparing solutions: ...
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The EU Committee of the Regions Backs Geothermal Energy
The European Committee of the Regions’ plenary adopted its Opinion entitled “On the role of geothermal in localising energy production”, led by József Ribányi from the European Conservatives & Reformist Group (ECR), with nearly total support. This reiterates that geothermal is the technology of choice for municipalities all over Europe. This is because it is ...
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Dandelion Energy Celebrates New Tax Credit for New York Homeowners Who Install Geothermal Systems
Dandelion Energy, the nation’s leading home geothermal company, celebrates the passing of the New York state budget, which includes a new tax credit for residential geothermal heat pump installations in New York. The new geothermal tax credit is available for any system installed after January 1, 2022, and homeowners can carry the tax credit forward for five years if their New York income ...
By Dandelion
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enOware partly stops GEOsniff products
From now on enOware stops the further development and delivery of the products GEOsniff AUTO TRT KIT and GEOsniff AUTO BYPASS Regretfully we need to inform you that from now on we stop the products GEOsniff AUTO TRT KIT and GEOsniff AUTO BYPASS from enOware GmbH. Business circumstances forced enOware to stop the development and marketing of these products. For already delivered systems we ...
By enOware GmbH
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Munich, Germany utility seeks to optimize geothermal heating with AI
The city utility of Munich, Germany, Stadtwerke München (SWM), has announced a new research project that aims to use AI to optimize the operations of geothermal district heating networks. The project, called “EnEff_Netzregulation” is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and will be carried out with project partners Institute for Automation ...
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Geothermal Heat Mining Promises Abundant, Cheap Energy
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Mining the heat that resides as stored energy in the Earth's hard rock crust beneath the United States could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the country will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact, new research shows. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the study is the first in 30 years to take ...
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The Geothermal Resources Council Announces 2016 Amateur Photo Contest
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) is pleased to announce this year’s Amateur Photo Contest. The purpose of the contest is to showcase quality photography featuring geothermal energy around the world. The winners will be announced at the GRC Annual Member Meeting and Awards Luncheon, the climax to the 40th GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo being held in Sacramento, ...
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All-Electric Building Draws Energy From 500 Feet Below the Surface of the Earth
The key to heating an 834-unit apartment tower under construction on the Brooklyn waterfront will be a hole in the ground. Actually, it will be 322 holes, each about 4 inches (10 centimeters) across and exactly 499 feet (152 meters) deep any deeper and New York state would consider it a mining project. These holes comprise the heart of a geothermal heat-pump system that is expected to reduce ...
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Geothermal: the dark horse of renewable energy
Geothermal energy is clean, quiet, virtually inexhaustible and able meet the world’s annual electricity and heating needs many times over with little impact on the climate or the environment. In many jurisdictions, geothermal energy is emerging as a reliable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels. This fourth article in the GLOBE-Net series on renewable energy discusses the dark horse of ...
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